Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind this loud negative was a long history of the decline of the American Merchant Marine as a paying proposition, and a growing need for government subsidy to keep American ships afloat, carrying the American flag, and transporting American cargoes. It has long been common knowledge that American goods could reach Europe and the Far East most cheaply aboard freighters carrying the British, Dutch, or Norwegian flags. Further, it has taken no great investigation to link the high standards of life aboard American ships to the high cost of shipping on these same vessels. Forced by union agreement...
Broadway saw another Ben Hecht opening last week-a propagandist pageant for free Palestine called A Flag Is Born. It swelled to five the current Hecht attractions in Manhattan: a third play, Swan Song (with co-author MacArthur), and two movies (Notorious and The Specter of the Rose...
Written in hot protest over the plight of Europe's homeless Jews, A Flag Is Born paints their present sufferings, relights their gorgeous Biblical past, lashes out at the "strong Jews, rich Jews, high-up Jews" who stood by in frightened silence, excoriates the British, breaks off on an inflammatory note of armed resistance...
Parts of A Flag Is Born are colorful theater and parts are biting propaganda; there is nice music by Kurt Weill and nice acting by Paul Muni as an uprooted old Jew who dies on the road to Palestine. But the evening is only fitfully effective. Hitting from all sides, working in all moods-now pathetic, now heroic, now angry, now scornful-A Flag Is Born lacks singleness of impact...
...shadow of Oahu's bomb-pocked Schofield Barracks, where the first casualties of the Pacific war were buried nearly five years ago, service chaplains last week intoned the funeral service every 30 minutes for 48 hours. The flag-draped wooden caskets which they committed to the ground held the remains of 570 U.S. servicemen who had once been buried in temporary cemeteries in New Zealand, Samoa and the Fijis...